THE LADIES’ WORLD.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2618, 28 September 1909, Page 3

THE LADIES’ WORLD.

THE LARGE HAT.

HEFLECnONS ON THE MODEL!.'! FASHION. Large hats tend to thirl the ranks of spinster hood, and should therefore be encouraged; not that they render lovemaking "easy; on. the contrary, they make it almost impossible. Men cannot resist a woman in a large hat, not so much because of what they see of her as because of what they don’t see.

Men are children —they long for what they cannot clasp. No man can clasp a woman who is wearing a large hat, and she wouldn’t permit it if he coil’d. Every properly brought-up woman prizes her millinery much more than her emotions.

iSad is the man who follows a hat of Sienna —measuring 3ft across—imagining it to contain some bellissima donna, when lie overtakes —a hag of the lulls; but better, perhaps, to invite romance from the back than not at all. A large hat may he invaluable at a crisis as a basket, a drinking vessel, a tea tray, or a flower pot, and is to many their only roof-garden; for a hat., too,* in a crisis, anything round and sufficiently large will serve, from a cab-bage-leaf'to a dish-cover, a cart-wheel to a coal-scuttle, a palm-frond to a beehive. A large hat is a great blessing or a great curse, but the blessings outweigh the curses. The sun of heaven docs not paint your cheeks so vividly under a large liat, or sprinkle his kisses on the tip of your nose. In fact, a large hat is a splendid chaperon! Like charity, a large bat covers a multitude of sins, or, shall we say, indiscretions?

Woman” has discovered, with an intuition brilliant, enough to entitle her to the vote, that she looks at her best in a large hat. It is becoming, and therein lies its comnhite defence. Is it uncomfortable? What matter! It is becoming. Does it inconvenience other people, i and reduce tlio seating capacity of tho motor omnibus Less matter still! It is becoming.—-From “Books of To-day and Books of Tomorrow.”

FOR THE COMPLEXION. Few women know how essential on tain vegetables and fruit acids are to tiie (Yenera 1 Health and the retention of a good complexion. For this purpose the most valuable are potatoes, cabbage, cauliflowers, grapes, oranges, and limes. Limes have a great abundance of acid, and for those who like them they arc a mod wholesome spring fruit. Unsweetened limejuico in water forms an excellent dinner beverage. Lemons contain about six times as much acid ns oranges, and, having regard to their size, one small lemon is equal to about three medium oranges. .Oranges, however, are quite nourishing, one-tenth of their contents being sugar. Women, for tlie sake of their complexions, and children, for the purity of their blood, should eat plenty of oranges and drink lemonade arid limejuico until the .summer fruits come into season. Tartaric is said to be another useful acid, and it i s found in red and black currants and in grapes. Bottled currants in pastry and dumplings, form an excellent spring medicine. They contain, weight for weight, six times as much acid as oranges. Grapes vary much. Some contain five times as much as others. All grapes are nutritious, having one pound of sugn'r very often to six jKiunds of fruit. Sixpence spent on grapes is much better spent than on sweets.

CITIZENSHIP. The following was read at. the meeting held by the Cook County Women's Guild last week, to commemorate the granting of AN omen’s Suffrageln thinking over the number of years since the women of New Zealand received the franchise, we wonder if they fully realise the highest meaning of the word “franchise.” To make free a particular privilege conferred by grant by a sovereign or government. So, after those many years, we • .-k G’e question : Are the women of the •Kieii;; the best use of the > nsii.p;' It is well to speak ••.:>» . perhaps another will put it into practice, so the thought becomes the living act. AVe suggest that the women of our young Dominion take their place as useful citizens. Onlv in a very few cities are our sisters taking their seats on school committees, school boards, hospitals, charitable aid, and the Licensing Bench. AV© must know that the wise supervision of women would he beneficial on these seats; also on. lTio Borough Councils—why not? On all these seats women are capable of judging and suggesting for the good of the people. I am not in favor of women having a seat in Parliament-—I do not think the time has come, but I am in favor of a women’s council, that they should he voted to that said council by the will of the people for the good of the people outside party politics to help to form all laws dealing with the moral welfare of the people. The question so often asked : How can a woman leave her home? is being forgotten. AVe never ask how can a man leave his home and business to attend to political affairs. AVe are not forgetting home. It is for the advancement of “home that we plead with women to take their stand as true citizens. Thor© is a civilisation which does not attain to true citizenship, neither does it exalt a nation—only true character will stand. AVe may build our Dreadnoughts by the dozens and by the thousands, and mount up like eagles; it will profit us nothing if our nation is not aiming for the highest life —morally and spiritually. In the present rush for material things we have need to ask ourselve 3 the solemn question from- God “What will ye do in the-clay of visitation and the day of desolation which shall come from far? To wlvoxn will ye flee for help? And where will ye leave your glory?” AA T e would plead for a higher standard of moral and spiritual lifTr in the home, church, and State of our Dominion. AVe would ask our young men to lay aside their sporting news and read, if only lor one hour, that wonderful old book, Proverbs. In it’s counsels wo learn the true path to noble citizenship. The great men and women of past ages have been guided ■and kept by its precepts. Lot the women of New Zealand realise that our franchise means something more than the mere casting of our vote—lt means the noblest citizenship.